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1. TRANSMITTED UNDER SEPARATE COVER VIA FLEXOWRITER JS A copy
OF THE WAVE MEMO TO ACSI AS PRESENTED TO ACSI ON 39 JANUARY 1965.

2. THE '*CAS SOURCE’* MENTIONED THROUGHOUT THE MEMORANDUM 1S
AMICE*14, THE **SUB-SOURCE'' IN PARAGRAPHS 11 THROUGH 14 AND THE
'SSUB-SOURCE'® IN PARAGRAPH 24 ARE THE SAME PERSON, IOEN A OF REFS.

3. LATER DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE PASSING OF THIS MEMORANOUM
ARE THAT BOTH THE WIFE OF AMTRUNK-9 AND AMICE-14 HAVE IDENTIFIED
**JORGE'® AND '*TORRES'* AS THE SAME PERSON FROM A PHOTOGRAPH PRO-
VIDED BY ACSI ANDO, PER PARAGRAPH 27, THAT THE WIFE OF AMTRUNK-9
{WHO NOW BELIEVES HER HUSBAND TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN PRISONERY 1S
EXERTING PRESSURE UPON ACS! FOR ODYOKE TO NEGOTIATE THROUGH DIPLO-
MATIC CHANNELS FOR HER HUSBAND'S RELEASE. REPORTEOLY, THE WIFE OF
AMTRUNK-9 HAS ASKED FOR AND RECEIVED PERMESSION FROM '*TORRES*! TO
WRITE A LETTER TO THE WIFE Gf GPIDEAL PLEADING HER HUSBAND'S CASE.

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MODESTC ORLANDO CACZCO BASULTO

1. AF ABOUT 1800 HOURS, 29 DECEMBER 1564, MRS. JOSEFINA LOPEZ
ANGULO CE ORCZCC, WIFE OF MODESTO CRLANDO ORCZCO BASULTG AKA ''BEBO?',
TELEPHONED A CAS SOURCE WHO HAS BEEN FRIENOLY WITH CRCZCC FOR
SEVERAL YEARS. HRS. GROZCG ASKED THE CAS SCURCE TO VISIT KER AT HER
HOME THAT EVENING.

2. THE CAS SOURCE ARRIVED LATER THAT EVENING. MRS. OROZCO
ASKEO THE CAS SCURCi IF HE KNEW THAT HER HUSBAND HAO LEFT FGR CUBA,
CAS SOURCE REPLIEO THAT HE HAD HEARD RUMORS TO THAT EFFECT. MRS.
OROZCO SAID THAT SHE WAS VERY WORRIED ASGUT HER HUSBAND BECAUSE
SHE HAD WOT NEARY A WORD FROM GR AGCUT Him SINCE HE Leer with 2
OTHERS & DAYS PREVICUSLY, CN 21 DECEMBER 196%. OROZCO HAD PLANNED
TO RETURN [i A WEEK. MRS. GROZCO ASKED CAS SOURCE TO TRY TO FIND
OUT SCMETHING A8CUT CROZCO THROUGH ''HIS FREENSS IN CUBA'', CAS
SOURCE SAID THAT HE WOULD TRY SINCE HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN A GOCD FRIEND
/OF WIS BUT THAT HE WOULD NEED SOME CETAILS OF THE PROPGSED TRIP Tc
HELP HIM EN HES INVESTIGATIONS.

3. MRS. OROZCO SAITO THAT HER HUSBAND HAD GONE INTO CUBA TO
RESCUE JOSE VASQUEZ NEREY AND 3 OTHERS WHO WERE HIDING IN THE: HOME

OF AWOMAN NAMED GLORIA CABRERA WHO LIVEO AT NO.72 27TH STREET BETWEEN
‘ONT? AND '10'', APT. 3, VEDADO, HAVANA. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT THE
ADDRESS HAD BEEN GIVEN TC CROZCO BY HORTENSIA ORIZONDO MENESES

ACS? SCURCE NC. i80/. MRS. OROZCO ADDED THAT BOTH SHE AND HER
HUSBAND HAD KNGWN GLORIA CABRERA IN THE STERRA MAESTRAS AND THAT

SHE /MRS. CROZCO/ OID HOT TRUST HER BECAUSE **SHE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY
WITH THE REGIME UNTIL GHLY A FEW KONTHS AGO**.

&. HRS. GROZCO TCLO CAS SOURCE THAT HER HUSBAND HAO BEEN

_VESUTED ABOUT FEVE TIMES BETWEEN MID-NOVEMBER AND MID-DECEMBER 1564
BY A PUERTO RICAN WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS '*JORGE''. IT WAS
**JORGE'*, ACCORDING TO MAS. OROZCO, WHO TOLD HER HUSBAND CF THE
PLIGHT OF JOSE VASQUEZ HEREY. DURIKG THE SECOND GR THIRD MEETING,
*#JORGE’® MENTIONED THE NAME OF "*HCRTENSIA'*, LATER IDENTIFIED AS
HORTENSIA ORIZONCO MENESES, AND, AGAIN ACCORDING TO MRS. CROZCC,
ORIZONOO WAS FROM THAT TIME GROZCC'S CONTACT IN THE VASQUEZ AFFAIR.
ALTHGUGH ‘'JORGE'? 01D NOT AT ANY TIME REPRESENT HIMSELF AS CIA,
MRS. OROZCO ASSUMED THAT HE WAS SENT BY CHA. THIS ASSUMPTION SHE
PASSED GN TO CAS SOURCE. '*JORGE'' NEVER HDENTIFIED THE CRGANIZA-
TICN WHICH HE REPRESENTED BUT HE DID TELL MRS. CROZCO THAT HE WAS
WOT FROM CIA, **JORGE'* DID, HOWEVER, CONTINUE TO REPRESENT HIMSELF
AS HAVING OFFICIAL BACKING FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. \
‘HJGRGE** WAS DLSCRIBED AS 5* 6** TO 8", MEDIUM BUILD, DARK BROWN |
SLICKED-BACK HAIR WITH NO PART, DARK BROWN EYES, CLIVE COMPLEXION,
ABOUT 33 YEARS OLD, AND SPEAKING NEAR-PERFECT SPANISH.

S. THE CAS SOURCE REMARKED THAT A TRIP OF THIS NATURE REQUIRED
A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY AND SUPPLIES. WHO HAD HELPED OROZCO
TO GET THE BCAT, TO EQUIP IT AND FUEL IT AND TO PROVIDE THE OTHER
NECESSITIES? MRS. ORGZCO REPLIED THAT THE FINDING, EQUIPPING AND
READYING OF THE BOAT HAD BEEN HER HUSBAND'S RESPONSIBILITY BUT THAT
GRIZONCO HAD PROVIOLO THE FUNOS. 7/45 WILL BE SEEN BELOW, THIS
ALLEGATICN THAT ORIZGNOO WAS THE PAYMASTER FOR OROZCG'S TRIP 41S
SUPPORTED BY A SIMILAR STATEMENT BY ANOTHER CAS SUB-SOURCE TO WHOM
OROZCO TALKED QUITE FREELY ABOUT A WELK BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE/.

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6. CAS SOURCE ASKED MRS. ORCZCO INTO WHICH AREA O10 HER
HUSBAND INTEND TO INFILTRATE CUBA. MRS. CROZCG SAID THAT HE
PLANNED TO GO INTO NCRTHEASTERN MATANZAS PROVINCE TO THE MARTI AREA
WHERE HE HAD SEVERAL CCNTACTS WHO HAD HELPED HIM IN THE PAST. CAS
SOURCE PRESSED FOR OTHER OETAILS OF THe ACTUAL SITE OF INFILTRATION
BUT MRS, CROZCO PRCTESTED IGNORANCE OF FURTHER DETAILS. SHE SAID
THAT SIE8 PUSEARD HAD WITH PEA An ST EXDEPTS! MAME SIMATEQ*? SHO
KNEW THE ARCA COMPLETELY. /‘'MATEC'' WAS LATER JOUNTEFIED AS
ALBERTO GONZALEZ ORTIZ. CAS FILES INDICATE THAT GONZALEZ HAS MADE
A NUMBER CF CLANDESTINE TRIPS TG CUBA WHILE CCNTRACTING TO BRING
QUT RELATIVES OF EXILES FOR MONEY. HIS REPUTATICN IS UNSAVCRY
BASED UPON THE GENERALLY-ACCEPTEO FACT THAT HE HAS ACCEPTED LARGE
SUMS OF. MONEY TO BRING FAMILIES CUT AND HAS FREQUENTLY FAILED TO
HAKE GOCO.HIS PROMISES. IT 1S ALSO A CCMMCNLY-ACCEPTED FACT AHCNG
THE EXILE FISHERMEN THAT GONZALEZ WILL NEVER UNOERTAKE SUCH A TRIP
UNLESS HE HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY PAID OR 1S COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT THE
MONEY WILL Be MADE AVAILABLE UPGN HIS RETURN/.

7. MRS. CROZCO SAID THAT SHE DID NCT KNCW THE NAME OF HER
HUSBAND'S INTENDED PRIMARY CCNTACT IN. THE MARTI AREA. SHE MENTIONED
GNE "*CANDIDG'' DJAZ, A FISHERMAN, AND ONE PEDRO BARBI, THE CWHER
OF THE BATE MARINO RESTAURANT 2H CARDENAS, OROZCG HAD TCLS HIS WIFE
THAT HE INTENDED TO SEE THESE PERSGHS TO HELP HIM WITH ‘RANSPCRTATION
TG HAVANA AND TO PROVICE HIM WITH FUNDS /MRS, GROZCO CONTENDS--AND
iT tS A SORE POINT WHTH HER-=-THAT OROZCO LEFT WITH ORLY A FEW
COUNTERFEIT PESOS/, CNCE IN HAVANA, GROZCO PLANNED TO GO FIRST TO
THE HOME OF MARIO GIL GONZALEZ sHIS PATRONYMIC HAS ALSO BEEN SPELLED
*PHILL''/, FROM THERE, OROZCO PLANNED TC GO DIRECTLY TO THE
ADDRESS OF THE CABRERA WOMAN WHICH HE HAD RECEIVED FROM OREZONDO,
PICK UP VASQUEZ AND GROUP AND LEAVE.

8. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT HER HUSBAND TOLD HER THAT NE WOULO
SENO A TELEGRAM TO HER AS SOON AS HE REACHED HAVANA SAFELY, SHORTLY
BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE, HE WOULD SEND ANOTHER CABLE IN PRE-ARRANGED
CODE TO §NOICATE THAT HE WAS ON HIS WAY GUT. MRS, OROZCO WAS THEN
TO CALL: ORIZCNOG WHO WAS TO ARRANGE AN AIR SEARCH FOR THE BOAT.

/AS LATER TOLO BY MRS. CROZCO, ENCLUSICN OF THE WORD '"BIEN'* /GOOD,
iN A CABLE INDICATED THAT OROZCO WAS SAFE IN HAVANA. INCLUSION OF
THE WORD '*SALIO'' /LEFT OR OEPARTED/ WOULD INDICATE THAT HE WAS

ON HIS WAY OUT.

9. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT ORIZONDO HAD CALLEO HAVANA CN 30
DECEMBER 1964, PRESUMABLY TO THE CABRERA WCMAN'S HOME. VASQUEZ
HIMSELF HAD AHSWEREO THE PHONE AND STATED THAT THERE WAS NO NEWS
FROM OROZCO OR FROM ANYONE ELSE. VASQUEZ AND THE GROUP WERE STILL
WAITING FOR CONTACT.

40. CAS SOURCE ASKED MRS. OROZCO HOW MUCH MONEY OROZCO HAD
LEFT BEHIND FOR HER SUPPORT. SHE REPLIED THAT HER HUSBAND HAD LEFT
$50.00 BUT THAT HE HAD TOLO HER TO RE-CONTACT ORIZCNDO IF SHE

SHOULD NEED MORE.

ti. A CAS SUB-SCURCE REPORTED THAT OROZCO HAD COME TO HIS

HOME ON 32 DECEMBER ANO HAD TOLD HIM THAT HE PLANNED TO GO TO CUBA
+ TO RESCUE VASQUEZ. OROZCO SHOWED SUB-SOURCE A RECEIPT FOR 41.00
FOR REPAIR TC AN OUTBOARD MOTOR. ORGZCC SAID THAT THE BCAT WAS NOT
FAST BUT QUITE SEAWORTHY. OROZCO SAID THAT ORIZONDO HAD PAID THE
BILL FOR THE MOTOR REPAIRS AND HAD PROVIDED THE OTHER NECESSARY
FUNDS. ORCZCO NAMED ORIZCNOO AS A PERSON WHOM HE /CROZCO/. HAD
BROUGHT OUT GF CUBA AND WHO HAD KORKED $N CUBA UNDGR ONE DAVTO
CABEZAS, AS REPORTED BY SUB-SCURCE, GROZCO TOLD HIM THAT GRIZONDO
HAD TOLD HIM CF VASQUEZ" DANGER AND ASKED FOR HIS HELP IN RESCUING
HIM. GCROZCO TOLD SUB-SOURCE THAT HE HAD REPLIED THAT HE-WCULD OO
ANYTHING TO HELP HIS FRIEND VASQUEZ BUT THAT HE WANTED TO KNOW WHO
THE PEGPLE WERE BEHIND HER /OREZCNOC/. GRIZCNDG HAD REPLIED THAT
SHE WAS GOING TO PUT HiM IN TCUCH WITH A PERSCN WHC SPOKE FLUENT
SPANISH BUT WAS NOT. CUBAN. THES WAS ''JORGE'' AND FRGM WHAT SUB-
SOURCE IS ABLE TO RECONSTRUCT CROZCO MET ''JORGE'' IN A BAR ON
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MRS. ORCZCO TOLD CAS SCURCE/.

$2. OROZCO TOLO SUB-SGURCE THAT GRIZONDO HAD ScT UP THE MEET-
ING FOR WESNESDAY MORNING, 3 OECEMBiR, WITH THE TWO PERSONS WHC
WOULD ACCOMPANY HIM CN THE TRIP. CPROZCG MET THEM CN FLAGLER STREET
AT A SPECIFEC CCRNER WHICH CRCZCO DIO NOT MENTION TG SUB-SCURCE,

13. OROZCC SAIO THAT HE HAD ASKED FOR A RECEIVED $490.00 FOR
EACH MEMBER CF THE CREW s47f $3 UNCLEAR WHETHER CROZCO ACTUALLY RE-
CENVED THES SUM CF MONEY FOR HIMSELF AS WELL, PLUS A PRCHIESE TO
TAKE CARE OF ALL CF THEIR FAMILIES FF THEY DID NOT RETURK.

th. OROZCO CALLED SUB-SOURCE BY TCLEPHONE LATE Of THE UVENING
OF §& DECEMBER TC TELL HIM THAT HE WAS "ON HIS WAY TO THE KEYS!"
OROZCO TOLD SUS-SOURCE THAT THE ARRANGEMENTS FCR THE MCNEY AND THE
ASSURANCES TO TAKE CARE OF THE FAMILIES HAD BEEN AGREED UPON |

$5. AT A SECOND MEETING BETWEEN MRS. ORCZCO AND CAS SCURCE ON
8 JANUARY, MRS. OROZCC TOLD CAS SCURCE THAT SHE HAD COME INTO THE
POSSESSIGN GF SCHE INFORMATION FROM AN UNNAMED FISHERMAN WHO HAD
RECENTLY COME OUT OF CUBA. THIS INFORMATION INDICATED THAT 3CVERAL
ARRESTS HAD BEEN MADE JN THE SAME AREA IN WHICH HER HUSBANO INTENDED
TO INFILTRATE. MRS. CROZCO SAID THAT SHE HAD ALSO HEARD A RADIO
BROAOCAST THE DAY BEFORE, 7 JANUARY, STATING THAT & IRF ILTRATCRS
HAD BEEN PICKEO UP IN THE CAROENAS/MATANZAS AREA OF MATANZAS PROVINCE.
MRS. OROZCO HAD CALLED CREZONDO AND INSISTED UPON SEEING ''JUCRGE!
TG GIVE THIS INFORMATION TO HIM PERSONALLY.

16. '"'JCRGE'' AND ORIZCNDO ARRSVED AT HER HOME ABCUT 20C0
HGURS, 7 JANUARY. MRS. ORCZCO SAiD THAT SHE TCLOD ‘* JORGE! THE
ENFORMATION ABOUT ARRESTS IN THE AREA ANO MENTIONED A PERSON RAMED
**PEOROS®, BRS. CROZCO SAIO THAT '*JCRGE'' HAD PRICKED UP HIS EARS
AT THE MENTION OF THE NAME ''PEDRO''. ‘"'JORGE'' ASKED MRS. CROZCO
THE LAST NAME OF ''PEDRO'', MRS, CRCZCG REPLIED THAT SHE DID ROT
KNOW. ‘' JORGE’! ASKED WHAT BUSINESS THIS '*PFDRO'* WAS IM. MRS.
OROZCO SAD THAT SHE THGUGHT THAT '*PcDRO** CWNED A RESTAURANT IN
CARDENAS, MATANZAS PROVINCE. ACCORDING TO MRS. ORCZCO, '*JORSE®®
THEN IDENTIFIED "*PEDRO'' AS PEDRO BARBI s/CR BALBI/ FEBLES AND
SAID THAT BARBI DID NOT ''WCRK WITH THE AMZRICANS**® OR WITH AKY
ORGANIZATION BUT THAT HE HAD HELPED MANY PEOPLE. MRS, GROZCO SAIO
THAT. THIS PHECE OF NEWS WORRIED HER GREATLY BECAUSE HER HUSBAND

‘HAD TOLD -HER HE INTENDED TO CONTACT THIS PERSCNH. ACCORDING TC MRS.
OROZCO, ORIZONDO THEN BROKE INTO THE CONVERSATION TO DECLARE THAT
‘SWE * / PRESUMABLY MEANING SHE AND ''JORGE''; HAD CONE ALL THE
PLANNING FOR OROZCC'S TRIP AND THAT CRGZCO WAS NOT SUPPOSED To
CCNTACT BARBI ACCORDING TO THIS PLAN. MRS. GROZCO REPCRTEO THAT
'*JORGE** OFO NOT COMMENT ABOUT ORIZCKDO'S USE CF THE TERM ' were,

17. THE LICENSE NUMBER OF THE AUTOMCBILE IN WHICH ** sORGET®
AND GRIZCNDG ARRIVES WAS NOTED AS A NEW YORK PLATE, BU-5523. THE
CAR WAS DESCRISED AS A LARGE FIAT. THIS LICENSE NUMBER WAS TRACEO
AND IT WAS REPORTED BY THE NEW YORK MOTCR VEHICLE AUTHCRITIES THAT
§T WAS REGISTERED TO ONE LEWIS BURNS, 75 EAST PARADE AVENUE,

BUFFALO, NEW YORK. THE ONLY OTHER INFORMATION AVASLABLE FROM THE
MOTOR VEHICLE RECGRDS INDICATED THAT BURNS WAS BCRN 13-10-98, THAT
HE WAS RETIRED AND THAT THE AUTOMCBILE REGISTERED UNDER THIS NUMBER
HAD BEEN A 1950 BUICK, MRS. GROZCO SAID SHE THCUGHT THAT THIS WAS
THE SAME CAR **JCRGE'' HAD USED ON PREVIGUS VISITS.

3B. MRS. OROZCO SHOWED CAS SCURCE A NOTE WHICH MRS. OROZCO
IDENTIFIED AS HAVING BEEN WRITTEN BY GRIZONDO TO HER HUSBAND
“SSEE ATTACHMENT A/S. THE NCTE WHICH WAS NOT DATEO STATED THAT THE
-ACCOMPANYING 5500.00 WAS FOR OROZCO TO USE TC BEGIN PREPARATICNS
FOR HIS TRIP. ANGTHER $200.06 WAS FCRIHCCMING BUT SHE ADVISED

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OROZCG NOT TO TELL THES TO *'LOS MUCHACHOS’', PRESUMABLY OROZCO'S
CREW MiMBERS. THE NOTE MENTICHLO A PERSGN ANMEO '*4LNC'!' AND ALSO
P'JCRGE**. MRS. CROZCO SAID SHE DID NOT THINK ORIZCHOO REALIZED
THAT SHE JMS. ONCZCOs WAS STILL IN POSSL5Si0% CF THIS NOTE.

19. MRS. OROZCO REPORTED THAT GRIZCNDG HAD RETURNED To HER
HCUSE THE MCRHSHG AFTCR HER VISIT WITH *'JGRGE'!. HRS. GROZCO SAID
THAT GRIZONDC HAD BEEN VERY WATCHFUL AND THAT IT SEEMLO TC RRS,
OROZCC THAT THE PUAPOSE GF CRIZCHDO'S TRIP WAS TO ATTEMPT TO WHITL-
WASH ''JURGE** OF ANY CGNHECCICN WITH ORCZCO'S TREP, / THIS
bNFORMATICN WAS VOLUNTEERED FREELY TO CAS SGURCE AS aN O8SERVATION
OF MRS. OROZCOs/. URIZCNDO TOLD MRS. OROZCO THAT ''JORGE** HAD
ONLY COME BLOWG WITH Hee THE paruyons CVLiGhG SLSAUSE HE WAS IKTEREST-
ED $N WHAT HAD HAPPENCLO TO OROZCO AND THAT HE §*JORGE'! HAO HAD
NOTHING WHATEVER TO 0G WITH ORCZCO'S TRIP. MAS, OROZCO REMINOED
ORIZONOC THAT IT HAD BLEIN '*JORGE*® WHO HAD’ ORIGINALLY CCHE To SEE
OROZCO TO TELL HIM ABOUT VASQUEZ'S PLIGHT AND THAT **JCRGE'! Hap
VISITED OROZCO SEVERAL TIMES THEREAFTER, HEW WAS IT POSSIBLE THAT
'8JORSE'* HAD NOTHING TC OG WITH CROZCC'S TRIP, ASKED MRS. GROZICO,
CRIZCROO PROTESTED THAT **yCRGE «8 WAS ONLY INVOLVED IN TRYING To

GET INFCRMATION ABOUT VASQUEZ.

20. MRS. CROZCO REMARKED SCMETHING TO THE EFFECT THAT SHE
DID NOT KNOW IF ORIZONDO CONSIDERED HER A COMPLETE FOOL SUT SHE
/URS . OROZCC/ KNEW THAT SUCH A TRIP REQUIRED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT
OF MONEY, AT LEAST 310G0.00, AND THAT SHE WAS CERTAIN THAT ORIZONDO
CiD NOT HAVE THAT KIND CF MONEY OF HER CWH. ORIZONDG REPORTEDLY
REPLIEO THAT SHE HAD RAISED THE MONTY FROM FRIENDS. MRS. ORCZCO
PERSISTED AND STATEO THAT SHE WAS COMPLETELY SURE IN HER OWN MIND
THAT tT HAD BEEN ** THIS GENTLEMAN JORGE’' WHO HAD SUPPLIED THE
HONEY. ORIZONOO DID NOT ANSWER, /SEE PARA 26 BELGW IN WHICH MRS.
: OROZCO CLAIMED TO HAVE CVERHEARD A CONVERSATION BETWEEN '' JORGES?
. AND GROZCO IN WHICH ''JSGRGE** STATED HE COULO NCT SUPPORT OROZCO’S
TRIP DIRECTLY BUT COULD SUPPLY FUNDS; .

21. HRS. OROZCO TOLD GRIZONDO THAT SHE WAS STILL UNCERTAIN OF
**JORGE'S'' CREDENTIALS. MRS. GROZCO TCLD GRIZGNOO THAT HER
HUSBAND HAD HAD GREAT TRUST IN ORIZGNDC ANO SHE /MRS. OROZCC/
REALIZED THAT ANYTHING OR#ZONDO WAS INVOLVED IN WAS TO HER HUSBAND'S
BEST ADVANTAGE BUT AT THE SAME TIME SHE COULD NOT BRING HERSELF TO
FEEL THE SAME CONFIDENCE IN '* yoRGET! AS SHE FELT 1N ORIZONDO.
GRIZONGO TOLD MRS. CROZCO THAT ''s0RGES? WAS NCT CUSAN BUT PUERTO
RICAN, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO WORKED FOR THE '*PENTAGGN!* ,

OREZONOO SAID THAT SHE HERSELF Was NOT ACTIVELY WCRKING FOR THE
*'PENTAGON'! ANY LONGER BUT THAT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN HER FORMER
EMPLOYERS NEEO HELP AT WHICH TIMES THEY CALL UPON HER /OREZCNDOs .
MRS. OCRCZCO SAID THAT HER HUSBAND HAD TOLD HER THAT BOTH ORIZONDO
AND "‘'JORGE** WORKED FOR THE *'PENTAGCN'*, ;

22. ORIZGNDO TOLD MRS. OROZCO THAT SHE WOULD PROVIDE TO MRS.
OROZCO ANY MONEY THAT SHE NEEDED To SUPPORT THE FAMILY. ON 4 CR 5
JANUARY, CRIZONDO HAD GIVEN MRS. GROZCO $100.00 TO PAY HER RENT
/FGR WHICH SUM MRS. ORCZCO OID NOT SIGN A RECENPT/. ORIZONDO ALSO
H TOLO MRS. OROZCO THAT ' "JORGE! WOULD BE QUT GF TOWH FOR AN UN-

SPECIFIED PERIOD,

23. OROZCNDO PAID MRS. OROZCO ANOTHER VISIT ON 14 JANUARY,
; ACCORDING TC HRS. CROZCC, ORIZCNDO NOW CLAIMED THAT NEITHER SHE
‘ NOR _*'JORGE’' HAD HAD ANYTHING TO DC WITH OROZCO'S TRIP, THAT IN
; FACT THEY HAD BOTH TRIED TO TALK HIM GUT CF MAKING THE TRIP,

24. NOTHER SUB-SCURCE PAID A SOCIAL VISIT TO MRS, CROZCO ON
THE EVENING CF 11 JANUARY. MRS. CROZCO SHCWEO THIS SUB-SOURCE THE
SAME NOTE WHICH INDICATEO THAT CREZCNOG HAD GIVEN CRC2CO 4500.00
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SUB-SOURCE THAT BOTH GRIZCHNCO AND ''JCRGE** WORK FOR THE PENTAGON
AND ALSO MENTEICNED ORIZGNCO'S VISITS ON & AND 11 JANUARY IN WHICH
CREIZGNOO ATTCMPTED TG DISCLAIM ANY PART FCR HERSZLF GR ''JGRGE'* IN
OROZCTC'S TRIP. 3. GROZCO TOLD THIS SUB-SCURCE THAT 3iit WAS GCING ©
TO PUT PRESSURE UPON THESE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PENTAGGN

/GRIZONDO AND **JORGE''; TO LETHER GET HER HUSBAND OUT OF CUBA GR

FAILING THAT Te BUY HIM OUT.

25. ‘'#JORGE** PAID AN UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO MRS. GROZCO ON 13
JANUARY. DURING THIS VISIT, HE CONFIDED TG MRS. CRCOZCG THAT HIS
HAME WAS NOT ''JCRGE*® SUT *'TGRRES'*. **TORRES'! SAID THAT HIS
ORGANIZATION HAD NOT BEiN INTERESTED §N VASQUEZ BUT 8H TWO AGENTS
/HE USED THE TERM 'SAGENTES''/ WHO WERE IN HIDING IN THE SAME HOUSE
WITH VASQUEZ. AT WHICH POINT MRS. CROZCO ASKED ''TGRRES** HGW HE
HAPPENED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS IF HIS CLAIM WERE TRUE THAT HE HAD
NOTHING TO OG WITH HE® wucBANOPS TRIP, FFTORAEC#« Mane Me Rept y,

ACCORDING TO MRS, OROZCC,

26. MRS. CROZCC THEN CCMMENTED THAT SHE KNEW FROM PERSONAL
EXPERIENCE HOW OMFFECULT IT WAS TO RAISE EVEN A FEW HUNORED OCLLARS
IN THE EXILE COMMUNITY. SHE SAID THAT SHE KNEW CRIZCNDO DID NOT HAVE
THE $1060.00 GR MORE WHICH HAD BEEN SPENT FOR HER HUSBAND'S TRIP.
THIS LED HER TO THE CONCLUSION, MRS. GROZCG SAID, THAT ''TORRES!?
AND HIS ORGANIZATION HAD SUPPLIED THE FUNDS. AGAIN THERE WAS NO
REPLY FROH ''TCORRES'', ;CH 11 JANUARY 1964, MRS. GROZCO TOLO SAME
CAS SCURCE MENTICNED IN INITIAL PARAGRAPHS THAT SHE HAD CVERHEARD A
CONVERSATION BETWEEN HER HUSBAND ANO ''TCORRES'' A WEEK OR TWO BEFORE
GROZCO'S DEPARTURE §$N WHICH **TORRES'! TOLD ORGZCO THAT HE COULD
NOT SUPPORT HIS TRIP '*DIRECTLY'* BUT COULD PROVIOE MONEY WHICH
‘OROZCO COULD USE TO MAKE HIS OWN PREPARATIONS/.

27. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT SHE HAD HAD TWO SPECIFIC PROPOSALS
TO BRING UP TO ‘'TORRES''. ONE, THAT IF WORO WERE RECEGVED FROM HER
HUSBANO THAT HE WAS STILL HIOING.OUT, '*TORRES* '* ORGANIZATION
SEND A.BOAT IN TO HELP HIM EXFILTRATE. THE OTHER WAS THAT IF IT
BECAME CONFERMED THAT HER HUSBAND WAS A PRESONER, ''TORRES? #¢
ORGANIZATION NEGOTIATE FOR HIS RELEASE THROUGH DIPLGMATIC CHANNELS,
AS PART OF THIS LAST PRCPCSAL, MRS. CROZCG SUGGESTED THAT SHE BE
PROVIDED WITH SUFFICIENT MONEY TG TRAVEL TC MEXICO TO TAKE UP HER
HUSBAND'S CASE PERSONALLY WITH THE PRESTOENT OF MEXICO. '**TORRES*!
SASD THAT HE HAD TO TAKE THE MATTER UP WITH HIS ORGANIZATION.
*STCRRES'' RE-EMPHASIZED THAT HE PERSONALLY HAD HAD HCTHING TO DO
WITH HER HUSBANDS TRIP. HE WAS STILL ATTEMPTING TO USE ALL THE
RESOURCES AT HIS COMMAND TO FIND OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO OROZCO
AND WHILE HE WAS VERY SCRRY ABOUT HER HUSBANO'S MISFORTUNE, HE
STATED THAT iT HAO BEEN CROZCO'S OWN DECISIGN TO GO ON THIS TRIP.

28. UPON LEAVING, MRS. ORGZCC TOOK NOTE OF THE LICENSE
NUMBER ON **TORRES' ** BLACK VOLKSWAGEN. SHE ASSUMED BUT COULO NOT
BE CERTAIN THAT IT WAS A FLORIDA LICEHSE PLATE, NC.6801304 OR 680
1354, ACCORDING TO A CAS! INVESTIGATICN, THE PREFIX *'68p!!
REPRESENTS A PLATE BLOCKED AT THE TALLAHASSEE LEVEL FGR THE COVERT
USE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

29. ORIZONDO VISITED MRS. ORGZCO LATER THAT SAME EVENING OF
13 JANUARY. SHE SEEMED SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT '"JORGE'* HAD
VISITED MRS. OROZCO EARLIER THAT DAY. ORIZONOO ATTEMPTED TO CON-
VINCE MRS. OROZCO THAT THE ''JORGE'' HENTICNEO 'N A NOTE SHE HAD LEFT
FGR ORCZCO WAS CNE JORGE MAYO /CR MALLO/ CAROCSO, A FRIEND OF
OROZCO'S EN THE REBEL-ARMY-IN-EXILE GRGANIZATICN **EJERCITO
LIBERTADOR'* TO WHICH ANOTHER CLOSE FRIEND OF CROZCC'S, JOSE LOPEZ
LEGON AKA ‘'PEPE EL TORO'!' BELGNGS. MRS. GRGZCO REMARKED TC
OR!IZONDO THAT SHE DID NCT KNCW HOW STUPID GRIZONDO CCGNSIDERED HER TO
BE BUT THAT SHE WAS COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT THE *'JORGE**® MENTEGNED
ON THE NOTE WAS THE SAME ""JORGE*® WHO HAD VISITED HER-AND HER
HUSBAND. MRS. OROZCO ALSO TOLD ORIZCNOG THAT ''JORGE'* HAD TCLD
HER THAT HIS NAME WAS **TORRES**, ORIZONDO CONFIRMED THAT THIS
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PREPARE THE BOAT AND EQUIPMENT FCR GROZCO'S TRIP, IT APPEARS LIKELY
THAT GROZCO WAS EXAGGERATING WHEN HE SAID THAT HE HAD ASKED FCR
AND RECEIVED 5490.09 FCR £ACH MEMBER OF THE CREW. MRS. GROZCO HAS
STATED THAT OROZCO HAD GIVEN THEM EACH $20C .00 AND SHE THOUGHT BUT -
WAS NOT COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT HE HAD LATER GIVEN EACH CF THEM AN
ADDS TIONAL UNSPECIFIED SUM, STARTING WITH THE FIGURE GF $700.00
WHICH 55. HLNTEICHEO 4N THE ATTACHED NOTE FRCM CRIZONDG, IT APPEARS
SAFE TO SAY THAT MOST IF NCT ALL GF THAT aUM WOULD HAVE BEEN PAID
OUT FOR FUEL /4T LEAST 50 GALLONS SINCE (T HAD BEEN A 50-GALLCN TANK
WHICH HAD EXPLODED AND HAD TO BE REPLACEDs, FCCO FOR ONE WEEK, THE
ITEMS /KNIVES, PGNCHOS, CANTEENS, FATIGUE UNTFORMS, AMMUNITICN, ETC./
WHICH MRS. OROZCO CLAIMS GROZCO BCUGHT IN AN ARMY/NAVY STCRE PLUS
OTHER MISCELLANEOUS BOAT 1TEM3, 400 TO THIS $700.00, THE $290.00
APIECE FOR THE TWO FISHERMEN WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN MORE/, THE

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APPROXIMATELY 1341.00. MRS. CROZCO SAID THAT SHORTLY BEFORE HER
HUSBANO'S OEPARTURE, ONLY $125.00 REMAINED OF THE INITIAL SUH.

THE BALANCE GF 5 ENT FOR MOTEL ROCMS IN THE KEYS AND FOR
OTHER LAST-MINUTE PURCHASES. THE ONLY ITEMS FURNISHED To OROZCO,
ACCOROING TO HES WIFE, WERE AN Mel RIFLE AND AN M-l CARBINE WHICH
GRIZONDO HAD GIVEN HIM /HRS. OROZCO THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD HAD TO
BUY THE AMMUNITICN FOR THESE WEAPCNS/, AND A PESTOL OF UNIDENTIFIED
MAKE BY LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA OF THE MOC /CHRISTIAN DEMGCRATIC
MOVEMENT/ WHO ALSO GAVE OROZCO A MEANS OF ENTREE TO THE FRENCH
AMBASSADOR IN CUBA IF HE SHCULD RUN INTC UNFORESEEN OLFFICULTIES.
OROZCO ALSO BOUGHT OR RECEIVED FROM SOME UNNAMED SOURCE AN UNKNOWN
AMOUNT OF COUNTERFEIT PESOS,

34. AS ATTACHMENT 8 TO THIS MEMORANDUM, A COPY OF ANOTHER
NOTE FROM ORIZCNDO TCO OROZCO RECOMMENDING AN INCIVIOUAL BHO CCULD
PROVIDE A BOAT FCR HIS INFILTRATION 1S APPENDED FOR YCUR REFERENCE.
THES INDIVIDUAL 15 BELIEVED TO BE ACS# SOURCE No. 693.

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PARTICULARLY AS THESE CONTA ST '" JORGE!
AND ORIZCNDO. yf AND '* TORRES!
ARE ONE AND THE SAME, IT 1S TIGATION INTO
THE LOENTITY OF THIS INDIVIDUAL IS UNNECESSARY,

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{ CAME TO SEE YOU BECAUSE § HAD TO SPEAK TO YOU. 1 DON'T
KNCW HGW MUCH PROGRESS YCU HAD IN THE NFGCTIATIONS, BUT | WANTED
TO TELL YCU THAT 1 HEARD GF A MAN, HUMBERTO VERGARA, CALLED
VERGARITA. HE WAS RECCMMENDED TO ME AS A VERY SERICUS PERSCH,
AND IT 4S SAID THAT HE HAS A BOAT READY TO SAIL. MAYBE YCU KXCW
HIM. AS | CAWNCT SEE YOU OR DO ANYTHING DURING THE DAY, | MADE
THE FOLLCWING ARRANGEMENTS TO SAVE TIME. 1 TOLD HIM TO GO 76
THE FLAGLER BRIDGE, TCWARDS OCWNTCWN AND TO STOP CN THE LEFT St0E
NATURALLY GOING TOWARDS DCWNTCWNs AT 1200 NOON. YOU CAN THEN
APPROACH HIM AND ASK HIM IF HE £S VERGARITA, AND YCU IDENTIFY
YGURSELF AS MARQUIES. HE 1S A YCUNG MAN, HAS CNE TCOTH MISSING,
SF YOU THINK HE 1S GOOD, SPEAK TO HIM, FIND OUT WHAT HE HAS AND
HOW MUCH HE ASKS FOR THE TRIP,

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ME AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING TC SEE HIM, ALSO LET ME KNOW
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